But we loved the memes that came from it either way. The company may have missed the boat, jumped the shark, or gone on some other nautical adventure. Come on, Twitter, wash your hands!Īnd the award for misguided activism by a random company goes to: M&Ms! We didn’t know we needed the Green M&M to tone down her sexuality, but after the company replaced her high heeled boots with a pair of sensible sneakers, we can sleep so much better knowing that it’s impossible to be both sexy and smart. Thankfully, the Deltacron variant was actually just sample lab contamination as opposed to an actual merging of the Delta and Omicron variants.īut that didn’t stop the Deltacron memes from spreading. Just one week into 2022, a potential new COVID variant stepped into the scene, high heels, blowout at all. There was plenty of content to work with, what with all the colorful boxes, and the “ not Wordle” memes turned a word game into a work of art.Īnd confirmation that we should really spend less time on Twitter. ![]() Since you can only play Wordle once a day, there was plenty of time for people to come up with multiple angles on this 2022 meme. And thus, dear reader, the Wordle meme was born when people started to share the results on social media. ![]() The free online word puzzle captured the hearts of English nerds everywhere, giving them the validation that their $100,000 bachelor’s degree was worth it.īut the online dwellers don’t care if you can write sonnets or correctly guess a five-letter word in six tries. If 2022 is season three of COVID, then Wordle is the sourdough bread phase of quarantine. Elmo hates this inanimate chunk of stone, and we completely fell in love with the disdain bursting from its seams. The Internet decided to resurrect a rivalry between Elmo –the beloved red puppet from Sesame Street – and Rocco – the pet rock belonging to Elmo’s friend Zoe.Īt first we thought that the rivalry was just made up by people on Twitter with nothing better to do, but the footage is there. ![]() The year 2022 woke up and chose violence. Or how Queen Elizabeth…well, we don’t want to spoil anything for ourselves from a year ago. Or how Adam Levine texts like a teenager. They’re so perfectly “2022” that you can’t even imagine explaining to your past self the tension that exists between Elmo and a pet rock. It didn’t take long for iconic memes to pop up and claim their home in the Meme Hall of Fame. And nothing is a better reminder of that than these funny 2022 memes. Certainly it could have been particular to the circles I was in, but instead there were terms to describe specific types of (what we would today call) meme like "image macros" or "lolcats", and more general terms like "internet phenomena" or "internet references", but not widespread use of "meme".Just in case you blocked out the past two years, we are in fact in the year 2022. ![]() It is kind of easy to see how this meaning might have evolved, but my recollection is I don't really recall seeing the term "meme" online so much through the noughties, maybe until the later part of that decade. You also quickly find Godwin (of Godwin's Law fame) explaining the term and relating it to the internet in a 1994 Wired article (using something very close to its original meaning), and I've seen some quotes from the mid-2000s as well though I believe these might be still referring to memes in the strictly Dawkinsian sense.īut of course one of the modern senses of "meme" is something more like "a specific instance of internet culture that can is copied and spread (more or less) verbatim, often but not always based on a template". When you look up the etymology of the word "meme", you find a bunch of stuff talking about its origins in Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene of course, originally as a term to refer to an idea that can be replicated via transmission between brains with corruption along the way, in analogy to how genes are replicated and corrupted via DNA.
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